The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at a New York airport checkpoint has confiscated a pair of women’s shoes with fake guns as heels. Security considered the ‘pistols’ too realistic and banned them from being taken on board.

The TSA said the heels were seized from a woman traveling at New
York's LaGuardia Airport.

Along with the shoes a replica ammunition belt was also seized.
However, it is not clear if the belt belonged to the same
woman.

Photos of the heels and belt were tweeted by a Transportation
Security Administration public affairs representative in the TSA
Blog in a weekly section on unusual items confiscated at security
checkpoints at airports across the country.

The seized items are what the agency call “realistic replicas
of firearms” and thus they are prohibited from being taken on
board. Under the TSA rules that list such stuff in “Guns and
Firearms” section the shoes and the belt should have been carried
in checked-in bags.

The agency said the shoes were voluntarily surrendered by the
traveler and no one was arrested or fined.

The TSA has been confiscating all kinds of weapons and other
potentially harmful items for years now, but only recently they
launched Twitter and Instagram accounts to post pictures of
confiscated items.

The idea is to remind passengers of what not to attempt to bring
on a plane.

According to the agency’s blog, which has nearly 45,000
followers, 49 firearms were seized last week alone.